Temporary suppression of security event notifications

Abstract

Temporarily suppressing and/or disabling notifications to a client device of events detected by a security device monitoring an environment. The notifications may be disabled and/or suppressed based upon a request from a user of the client device, or when the client device is nearby the security device. The user may request that notifications are suppressed for a definable suppression duration, wherein a timer is started to run for the suppression duration, and notifications are suppressed while the timer is running. When the client device is nearby the security device, suppression of the notifications for other users may be defined by a user-configurable table. A notification from a security device may include a suppress button to suppress notifications from that security device for a suppression period.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A method comprising:
 storing first data that associates a first user device with a camera device; 
 receiving second data indicating that the camera device detected a first event; 
 based at least in part on the receiving of the second data, determining that the first user device is located proximate to the camera device; 
 based at least in part on the first user device being located proximate to the camera device, refraining from sending a first notification associated with the first event to the first user device; 
 receiving image data generated by the camera device, the image data representing the first event; and 
 storing the image data; 
 wherein the determining that the first user device is located proximate to the camera device comprises:
 receiving location data from the first user device; 
 determining that the location data represents a location; and 
 determining that the location is within a threshold distance to the camera device. 
 
 
     
     
       2. A method comprising:
 storing first data that associates a first user device with a camera device located at a first site; 
 receiving second data indicating that the camera device detected a first event; 
 based at least in part on the receiving of the second data, determining that the first user device is located proximate to the camera device; 
 based at least in part on the first user device being located proximate to the camera device, refraining from sending a first notification associated with the first event to the first user device; 
 receiving image data generated by the camera device, the image data representing the first event; 
 storing the image data; and 
 receiving third data indicating a signal strength of a wireless signal communicated between the first user device and the camera device, wherein the determining that the first user device is located proximate to the camera device comprises determining that the first user device is located proximate to the camera device based at least in part on the signal strength. 
 
     
     
       3. The method of  claim 2 , wherein the wireless signal is a short-range wireless signal. 
     
     
       4. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 storing third data that associates a second user device with the camera device; and 
 based at least in part on the first user device being located proximate to the camera device, refraining from sending a second notification associated with the first event to the second user device. 
 
     
     
       5. A camera device comprising:
 one or more sensors; 
 one or more wireless transceivers; 
 one or more processors; and 
 one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
 receiving sensor data generated by the one or more sensors; 
 detecting, using the sensor data, an event; 
 receiving, using the one or more wireless transceivers, a first wireless signal from a user device; 
 determining one or more signal strength values of the wireless signal received from the first user device; 
 sending, using the one or more wireless transceivers, first data representing the event to one or more computing devices; and 
 sending, using the one or more wireless transceivers, second data based on the one or more signal strength values to the one or more computing devices. 
 
 
     
     
       6. The camera device of  claim 5 , the one or more computer-readable media storing further instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform further operations comprising:
 deactivating at least a wireless transceiver from the one or more wireless transceivers; and 
 activating the wireless transceiver based at least in part on the detecting of the event, 
 wherein the camera device receives the identifier data using the wireless transceiver. 
 
     
     
       7. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising sending a second notification associated with the first event to a second user device associated with the camera device. 
     
     
       8. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the storing of the first data that associates the first user device with the camera device comprises:
 storing first identifier data associated with the first user device; 
 storing second identifier data associated with the camera device; and 
 storing the first data that associates the first identifier data with the second identifier data. 
 
     
     
       9. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the determining that the first user device is located proximate to the camera device comprises:
 receiving identifier data from the camera device; and 
 determining that the identifier data is associated with the first user device. 
 
     
     
       10. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the determining that the first user device is located proximate to the camera device comprises:
 receiving identifier data from the first user device; and 
 determining that the identifier data is associated with the camera device. 
 
     
     
       11. A method comprising:
 storing first data that associates a first user device with a camera device located at a first site; 
 receiving second data indicating that the camera device detected a first event; 
 based at least in part on the receiving of the second data, determining that the first user device is located proximate to the camera device; 
 based at least in part on the first user device being located proximate to the camera device, refraining from sending a first notification associated with the first event to the first user device; 
 receiving image data generated by the camera device, the image data representing the first event; and 
 storing the image data; 
 wherein the determining that the first user device is located proximate to the camera device is based on
 a determination that the camera device and 
 the first user device are both connected to a first network local to the first site. 
 
 
     
     
       12. The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 receiving third data indicating that the camera device detected a second event; 
 based at least in part on the receiving of the third data, determining that the first user device is no longer located proximate to the camera device; and 
 sending a second notification associated with the second event to the first user device. 
 
     
     
       13. The camera device of  claim 5 , wherein:
 one or more sensors comprise a camera; 
 the sensor data comprise image data; and 
 the detecting of the event comprises determining that the image data represents an object. 
 
     
     
       14. The camera device of  claim 5 , the one or more computer-readable media storing further instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform further operations comprising:
 storing second identifier data associated with the user device; 
 determining that the first identifier data is similar to the second identifier data; and 
 determining that the user device is located proximate to the camera device based at least in part on the first identifier data being similar to the second identifier data. 
 
     
     
       15. The camera device of  claim 5 , the one or more computer-readable media storing further instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform further operations comprising:
 determining that the first identifier data is associated with the user device, 
 wherein the sending of the first identifier data is based at least in part on the first identifier data being associated with the user device. 
 
     
     
       16. A system comprising:
 one or more processors; and 
 one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
 storing first data that associates a camera device with a user device; 
 determining that the camera device detected an event; 
 based at least in part on the camera device detecting the event, determining that the user device is located proximate to the camera device, wherein the determining that the user device is located proximate to the camera device comprises:
 receiving location data from the user device; 
 determining a location associated with the location data; and 
 determining that the location is within a threshold distance to the camera device; and 
 
 based at least in part on the user device being located proximate to the camera device, refraining from sending a notification associated with the event. 
 
 
     
     
       17. The system of  claim 16 , wherein the determining that the user device is located proximate to the camera device comprises:
 receiving identifier data from the user device; and 
 determining that the identifier data is associated with the camera device. 
 
     
     
       18. The system of  claim 16 , wherein the determining that the user device is located proximate to the camera device comprises:
 receiving identifier data from the camera device; and 
 determining that the identifier data is associated with the user device. 
 
     
     
       19. The system of  claim 16 , wherein the determining that the camera device detected the event comprises receiving, from the camera device, second data indicating that the camera device detected the event.